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50 Pfennig Prinzenraub Series
| Issuer | Stadt Altenburg (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of the Altenburg city gate rendered in ochre and red tones, flanked left by the municipal arms showing a white open hand on a red field and right by a red Tudor rose on a beige field, together composing the heraldic arms of the city. Decorative floral borders in red and black run along both vertical edges, and the denomination numeral '50' appears in red at each corner with the abbreviation 'Pf.' in the lower corners. A facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister (Schiller) appears to the lower right of the vignette, with the issue text and validity clause printed in Gothic script along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Sächs. 50 Pfg. dem/auf Schloss Altenburg geraubten Prinzen Albrecht gelingt es/auf der Rast beim Beerensuchen in dem Walde bei Elterlein/sich dem Köhler Georg Schmidt zu entdecken. a.d. 1455. Prinzenraub. |
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Altenburg's 1921 Notgeld series takes its name from the Prinzenraub — the 1455 abduction of the Saxon princes Ernst and Albrecht from Altenburg Castle by the knight Kunz von Kaufungen, one of the more dramatic dynastic crises of late medieval Germany. The city leaned heavily on this local legend for its emergency currency, a common strategy among Thuringian municipalities whose Notgeld doubled as collectible tourist pieces during the early 1920s inflation period.
J. A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was a prolific printer of such issues, supplying numerous towns across southern and central Germany with illustrated small-denomination notes during this period.